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the one, the only, the bobby flay. how'd you get in the building? just kidding.out this. bianco is not alone. every restauranteur across the country hit with the most unbelievable circumstances with the pandemic. what did you find? how did they navigate this? >> i think everybody navigated differently. and i think -- as he said, there was no playbook for this. and nobody knew what to do. i was one of them. i closed a bunch of restaurants on basically the first day that they told us to shut down. but a lot of people pivoted. you hear the word pivot a lot when it comes to the pandemic and restaurants. and it's continued even though the pandemic has subsided. a lot of these guys, like chris bianco, by the way, the pizza is better than it even looks. it's spectacular. but, that said, people like chris, he had his restaurant serving a bunch of pizza. but then he started a bread business. he started canning his own tomatoes so that he had ancillary businesses besides the restaurant. because the restaurant business was such an unknown at that moment. yes, there was take

. >> don't miss bobby flay's new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper. it's next right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining us. john t tim acosta is back next weekend, have a great t weekend >>> welcome to the whole story. you may have noticed dining out right now is different than it was before the pandemic. for one, there are fewer restaurants. an estimated 70,000 fewer since covid 19. higher prices and sometimes added service charges that many restaurants say our final to keep them running. more restaurants are offering takeout and delivery services. restaurant and had to adapt and evolve in order to survive. one of the establishments that didn't survive was bobby flay's longtime new york restaurant got two. he close the doors days after the lockdown began and that experience led him to think about who made it through the pandemic and why. over the next hour bobby flay takes us to restaurants around the country from oregon to kentucky to new york and introduces us to some of the leading chefs and experts say that dining out has changed for good.

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(we did it) start today at godaddy.com >>> tomorrow night celebrity chef bobby flay cooking up somethingwhole story with anderson cooper", he looks at how america's restaurant industry has changed after covid-19. >> like so many in the restaurant industry -- >> we lose thousands of dollars a day. >> chris bianca was blindsided by the totality of the pandemic. >> many restaurants around the country are closed and many of the us may not reopen. >> when you look at big moments like that, how do you face it? what do you do? >> it was so not in our playbook. >> the guy who started his pizza joint in the back of a grocery store in 1988 had by now expanded to four restaurants in phoenix, arizona. >> there we go. get a good shot there. there it is. >> the first time i showed up at your place, the maitre d' was telling people, it's four hours. now, i know you're used to this. but that's a remarkable thing to have in a constant basis. people have been waiting in lun for four hours to eat your pizza. all of a sudden the pandemic hits. what do you do? >> it was like a movie we could never imagine in

the food network's bobby flay joins the whole story with anderson cooper with a look at how the industryations. one of the things we knee right away was restaurants were going to need platforms to stay open. >> we channeled all of our marketing dollars at the time into building a campaign called open for delivery. we're up on air six days after the stay-at-home orders were in place. >> when the pandemic hit, i had one high-end restaurant in new york. we decided to close almost immediately because we didn't know what was going to happen. >> right. >> i didn't go down the road that most of my contemporaries did, which was being a business with a company like yours. a lot of my contemporaries would say to me, i'm doing a ton of business on delivery but i can't make money because of commission rates. >> during the pandemic we heard that a lot. >> be sure to tune in for a new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom continues with jessica dean right now. >>>

chef bobby flay visited with restaurant owners in portland, oregon, who are committed to a winning formulaenefits and full disclosure for employees as hallmarks of a post-pandemic restaurant. >> for the dinner rush, the staff gathers in one of the dining rooms. >> this is quarter one for 2023. >> but they're not going over the dinner specials. >> what's meaningful is when you look at the percentage of sales comparative to last year. that's a huge jump. >> they're in a meeting with the owners, who are discussing the restaurant's finances. one of the things that you guys do that i haven't seen a lot of is that you share your pnl statements with your employees. why? >> when you're faced wh something catastrophic, you can't go back to old practices sometimes. >> be sure to tune in to "the whole story with anderson cooper" tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacicific. it's a quiet refuge. they're not jujust headlights... they light the way forward. the new fully electric audi q8 e-tron models... how do we decide what hotel to book? [ding] aargh! fear not, i got you! who are you? i'm your fairy h

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the food network's bobby flay joins the story with anderson cooper to see how the industry is adaptinga tuesday afternoon and a russian inspired restaurant in portland, oregon. before the dinner rush, the staff gathers in one of the dining rooms. >> so this is quarter one, first three months of 2023 that we're loo looking at. >> but they're not going over the dinner specials. >> when you look at the percentage of sales comparative to last year, that is a huge jump. >> they're in a meaning with the owners bonnie and israel morales who are discussing the restaurant's finances. >> one of the things that you guy guys do that i haven't seen a lot of is you share your profit and loss statements with your employees. why? >> when your faced with something catastrophic and it turns your whole house upside down, you can't goack to old practices sometimes. >> don't miss the new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper tonight a

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